The leading vendors in the Enterprise Content Management market (Competitor Focus)

Introduction

The ECM market remains relatively fragmented and many vendors have successfully carved specific niches for their solutions. Despite the relative dominance of a few vendors, some of the smaller vendors surpass the market leaders in some of the categories examined. Datamonitor believes that this will be another driver for consolidation as vendors try to plug any holes in their portfolios.

Scope

• Technology: an assessment of vendors' technology based on specific attributes and the availability of certain features.
• User sentiment: tracks end-users' impression of vendors based on a survey of over 500 ECM users.
• Market impact: measures vendors' market impact based on their revenues and financial performance.

Highlights

A more detailed look into the technology features present in vendors' solutions makes it clear why EMC has an unequivocal leadership in this category. Although EMC faces tough competition from other ECM vendors it has managed to maintain a presence among the top three vendors in all but two of the technology assessment criteria.

The overall view with regards to market impact is that of a race between EMC and Microsoft over revenues, reach and recognition. The two vendors are the top two in almost every impact category with the third placed vendor generally quite far behind.

Reasons to Purchase

• Gain detailed knowledge of vendors' strengths with regards to technology, user sentiment and market impact.
• Find out which vendors are the leaders in each assessment category and benchmark your own performance against them.
• Examine the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors in order to develop a more informed competitive strategy.